Glover fought to build a life in music. From Portland, Ore., to New York City, her story traces resilience, creativity and ...

EFG London Jazz Festival 2025: an insider's guide to all the hottest shows - No need to improvise your plans when our jazz ...

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary jazz saxophonist and flutist James Moody Listen to his work with ...

Syracuse — CNY Jazz will once again bring national artists to their downtown theater with the revival of “Live at Jazz ...

Coleman Hawkins, known as "The Hawk" or "Bean," basically invented tenor sax as we know it, all the way down to Bill Clinton playing his way to office. After making many recordings with various groups ...

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

Smith talks about his album, "three of us are from Houston and Reuben is not," ahead of a DACAMERA concert with Jason Moran ...

The tenor saxophonist made his debut in 1959 and would go on to be a foundational member of two of the most seminal jazz groups: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet. By The ...

What happens when all your European and North American concerts and tours fall through because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic? For alto saxophone great Charles McPherson, there have been ...

Most saxophonists play their instruments standing up, but today, Prasant Radhakrishnan is sitting down. His legs are crossed, his back is upright; the saxophone droops like a brass pipe from his mouth ...

NEWARK - Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He ...